News & Current Affairs
Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting Limited (PCBL) aims to bring the best of New Zealand content to you via its contribution feed service Pasifika TV. We will keep you updated with the latest news and current affairs happening locally and from the Pacific.
Hawaiian voyaging canoe welcomed back to Waitangi
Source: by Peter de Graaf / RNZ.
A Hawaiian voyaging canoe has been welcomed back to Waitangi, 40 years after its first visit sparked the revival of ancient...
Tonga election: Women's advocate urges greater female representation in parliament
Source: RNZ Pacific
Director of Tonga’s Women and Children’s Crisis Centre (WCCC) Ofa Guttenbeil-Likiliki says too many important issues are...
Kiribati committed to resilient development pathway for its outer islands
Source: SPREP
While its islands may be small and low-lying, Kiribati is a mighty ocean state.
At COP30, Kiribati is spotlighting its strength and resilience...
Hawaiian waka comes to Waitangi, 40 years after sparking revival of Māori ocean voyaging
Source: Peter de Graaf/RNZ Pacific
Forty years after its first visit sparked the revival of Māori ocean voyaging, the Hawaiian waka Hōkūleʻa is due back...
Marshall Islands President encourages bold path at COP30
Source: SPREP
Instrumental in forming the High Ambition Coalition (HAC) to fight for the 1.5°C temperature limit, and for a framework that could deliver...
Source: RNZ Pacific via Cook Islands News
Tiare Henry-Anguna of Tupapa Maraerenga has been crowned Miss Cook Islands 2025, representing the islands of...
Source: RNZ
A Pacific healthcare provider in Auckland is ramping up efforts to reach people who are not immunised against measles, despite hitting a wall...
By Michelle Curran
Strategic Communications, Pasifika TV
Visionary Pacific storytelling is on full show at this year’s Hawai’i International Film Festival...
By Michelle Curran
Strategic Communications, Pasifika TV
The resounding success of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi show Chief of War and Te Reo Māori series Tangata Pai,...
By Michelle Curran
Strategic Communications, Pasifika TV
After a fire nearly destroyed Broadcasting Corporation of Niue’s (BCN) S-VHS and DVCAM videotapes...
Source: by Mark Rabago/RNZ Pacific
A massive latte stone from Rota has finally returned to the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI) after more than seven decades...
Source: SPC
The Pacific Community (SPC) is celebrating the return of its flagship television programme, The Pacific Way, marking 30 years as the region’s...
Source: SPC
The Chair of SPC’s 14th Pacific Community Conference, HRH Crown Prince Tupouto’a ‘Ulukalala has announced the appointment of Dr Paula Vivili...
Source: RNZ Pacific via ABC
In short:
Pope Leo XIV has canonised Peter ToRot, a Papua New Guinea man killed in prison in 1945 for standing up for monogamous...